Notes
The Roll lists his address as Jasmine Cottage, Fengate. (It also records the death of his brother Herbert). The Roll records William as a Lance Corporal when he died; he was actually serving as a Private.
(CWGC records that Private William Wallis, regimental number 51930, died aged 19 on 26/4/1918 serving in the 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. They record him as the son of Herbert & Ellen Wallis of "Jasmine", Fengate, Peterborough.
On the 1911 census William was aged 12, living with his parents at Jasmine Cottage in Fengate, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Peterborough. His birth had been registered in Peterborough District in 1899.
William's Army service file records that he gave his age as 18 when he enlisted. He was called up on 12/3/1917. He joined the 22nd Training Reserve under the regimental number 6491. He was appointed as paid Acting Lance Corporal on 30/6/1917. On 25/9/1917 he joined the 285th Infantry Battalion. On 12/2/1918 he transferred to the 6th Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps under regimental number 42915; he later joined the Rifle Brigade under regimental number 45013. He reverted to the rank of Rifleman on 23/3/1918, the day before he embarked for France. Within a week of landing overseas he was transferred on 29/3/1918 to the 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment under regimental number 51930. His Army file is noted that his death as a Private in the Cheshire Regiment on 26/4/1918 was presumed).